Larian Studios Forums Divinity 2 - Ego Draconis (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Quick mappping combat system

I just started playing and have enough skills now that they cannot all be quick mapped. I am playing with a XBOX 360. How do you change from ranged weapon to melee weapon if it is not quick mappeded? How do you shoot poison arrows if it is not quick mapped. I go into pause mode and then pick the skill but when I come back out of pause mode nothing happens. Do I need to quick map it while in pause??

When you use a melee or range attack/skill, your character will automatically switch to the appropriate weapon, if required. Rush Attack will switch to your melee weapon(s) if you are holding a bow, etc.

Apparently you can not use skills that require a target when paused. I just tried it, and Rush Attack and Poison Arrow do not work, even if there is a target highlighted. Selecting a skill that doesn't need a target (Healing, Whirlwind, summon creature...) will un-pause and trigger that skill, the same as using a potion. Do you have any skills mapped that don't need a target, which you can re-map to Poison Arrow?


FWIW, playing a warrior I assigned X melee attack, A range attack, Y Rush Attack, B Whirlwind, left Dragon Stone, right Dragon Morph stone (both after getting the battle tower), up Heal (level 1 comes in handy) and down summon creature (after getting it).
For potions, I generally just paused (or had the low hit point auto-pause kick in) and selected one from the menu there.


Welcome to the forum.

meh pipped at the post by Raze.... as usual

If it's any consolation, you've done that to me a couple times, as well.

Thanks for the quick reply. I was using X for melee Y for fireball (came with being a mage) A for whirlwind and B for bow or poisen arrow and noticed if I could not easily switch to a bow for a regular ranged attack if B had poison arrow or I could not switch to a poison arrow if I had a bow in B. I will play around with it and remap. I am using gamefly and don't have a manual. but I think there is one I can download which will answer a lot of my question. I decided to put a skill point in each of the ones you get free with warrior, mage, and ranger. That's three and there are only four buttons so I had to shoose between a regular ranged attack or a regular melee attack.

You can use the 4 directions on the D-pad, as well. They require a bit more precision, so I'd try to keep frequently used combat skills on the buttons (with the D-pad a couple times I was careless and hit the dragon morph stone when I meant to heal, or summoned my creature when I wanted to use the dragon stone).

Do you really need all those skills?

Thats a question I would ask myself, its ok on PC where you can hotkey stuff easily, but with a 360 controller you need to be a bit more pragmatic I think.

That's great I did not know I could use the D-pad. Thanks for the info. I should have figured that out.